Top 45 Recruiting Angel Investors in Japan (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
Angel
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3 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Education, Task Management, Recruiting | $1.4M–$16M |
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Yu Akasaka
Angel
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2 | Japan, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Angel | Food and Beverage, Content, Internet | $412k–$66M |
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Shinichiro Sugiyama
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor | $7.6M–$8.7M |
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Hidetoshi Takano
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment | $4.1M–$30M |
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Sato Takahiro
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources | |
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Kensuke Furukawa
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Media and Entertainment, Software | $961k–$41M |
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Noguchi Keito
Angel
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2 | Japan, United States | Seed, Angel | Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services | $7.1M–$11M |
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Yasuyuki Kin
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning | $1.4M–$14M |
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Kazuma Ieiri
Angel
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2 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Fashion, Recruiting | $380k–$41M |
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Ayataro Nakagawa
Angel
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2 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, Information Technology | $412k–$23M |
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Shota Iwasaki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency | |
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Koichiro Yoshida
Angel
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1 | Japan, Hong Kong, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Internet, Software, Virtual Reality | $6.9M–$23M |
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Toru Shimada
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Task Management, Manufacturing, Content | $549k–$66M |
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Joe Hirao
Angel
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1 | India, Japan | Series B, Seed, Series D | E-Commerce, B2B, E-Commerce Platforms | $12M–$30M |
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Fumiaki Koizumi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A | Internet, E-Commerce, Content | $6.9M–$73M |
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Shoji Kodama
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Series B | Real Estate, Internet, Construction | $14M–$14M |
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Masao Ito
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Content, Social Media, Information Technology | $640k–$16M |
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Hirofumi Miki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Content, Marketing, Internet | $3.7M–$32M |
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Arai Motoki
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Wedding, Recruiting, Media and Entertainment | |
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Kotaro Chiba
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Internet, Content, Software | $343k–$73M |
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Yusuke Asakura
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Finance, Internet, Consulting | $5.5M–$14M |
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Soichiro Kawai
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet | $961k–$30M |
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Daisuke Takanashi
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | SNS, Content, Finance | $7.6M–$9.6M |
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Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Post-IPO Equity | Media and Entertainment, Content, Men's | $4.3M–$41M |
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Narita Shuzo
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content | $2.4M–$18M |
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Hajime Hotta
Angel
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1 | Japan, Thailand, Singapore | Seed | Q&A, FinTech, Finance | $14k–$11M |
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Michimasa Naka
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Reservations, Travel, Employment | $41M–$41M |
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Nobuhiro Ariyasu
Angel
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1 | Japan, Singapore | Seed, Angel | Content, Internet, Finance | $2.7M–$70M |
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Shinji Kimura
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Japan | Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $1M–$106M |
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Ichiro Fukushima
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources | |
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Taira Sakuma
Angel
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, Singapore | Seed | Human Resources, Software, Consulting | $1.6M–$14M |
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Nishio Kentaro
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Information Technology, Internet, Software | $5.5M–$15M |
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Koji Hayami
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Recruiting, Real Estate, Task Management | |
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Hu Hua
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Content, Aerospace, Consulting | |
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Masaru Tange
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States | Seed, Series A | Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS | |
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Toshiro Wakimaru
Angel
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1 | Japan, India | Seed | Task Management, Food and Beverage, SNS | |
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Shunsuke Sasaki
Angel
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1 | Japan, Myanmar | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Social Media, Content, SNS | |
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Chikako Morimoto
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology | $9.3M–$18M |
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Umagami Emi
Angel
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Yuki Sato
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Sports, Internet, Recruiting | |
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Kanzaki Takahiro
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Freelance, Recruiting, Human Resources | |
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Yasuo Takahata
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed, Angel | Task Management, SNS, Recruiting | |
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Yusuke Sato
Angel
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1 | Japan, Indonesia, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Content, Food and Beverage | $2.1M–$41M |
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Oshima Ayanobu
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency | |
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Toru Tony Sakai
Angel
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1 | Japan | Seed | Apps, Medical, Employment | |
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Tatsuo Sakamoto
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- Industry: Education, Task Management, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
During Hosei University student, and intern at Hakuhodo C & D. After joining the Image-net, I do media monetization of EC site as a media planner. Then, new business, engaged in Alliance. Launched a crowdsourcing site "MILLION DESIGNS" of design in the individual, sold to Ransazu Corporation. Established the Eureka Co., Ltd., wasappointed Representative Director CEO.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Content, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $4.7M–$66M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- RE — RE specializes in smartphone application design and development.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
After HR in charge of the Tokyo Stock partially listed manufacturer, joined Pacific Management Co., Ltd. in 2001. After experience IPO on JASDAQ, TSE 2, and TSE partially listed, HR and management planningHe is responsible for management planning, equity finance, and IR, supporting the IPO of two Group companies to the TSE J-REIT market. JoinedEscrit Co., Ltd. in 2008, and oversees the listing of Mothers IPO and Tokyo Stock Exchange as CFO. Joined Bengo4.com Co., Ltd. in 2013 and launched several IPO and new businesses in Mothers in a year and a half as a director CFO. Representative Director of Burritudo Co., Ltd., 5 IPO Experience Companies. In July 2017, he was appointed Director of REXIT Co., Ltd. In November 2017, he became the Auditor of REXIT Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Recruiting, Wedding, Home Decor
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $7.6M–$8.7M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- REXIT — REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society.
- MonooQ — MonooQ is a shared storage service that connects people who are looking for storage space for luggage and those who want to make effective use of the extra space.
- Carat Japan — Service development and operation to make people shine
Joined Intelligence in 1999. Established Key Players Inc. in 2005. Consultation with more than 3,000 managers and career counseling for more than 10,000 individuals. In addition, we have invested in more than 55 outside directors, advisors and angels in Silicon Valley and Bangladesh in Japan. Over 100 lectures on careers, entrepreneurship andstartups.
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- Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $5.5M–$9.1M; Angel $4.1M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
- Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
- ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .
Sato Takahiro - CEO @ Sekaisha
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- Industry: Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- RIZAP GROUP —
Kensuke Furukawa was born in June 2, 1981. He graduated Waseda University majoring Political Science and Economics, and in 2000, he launched "Milkcafe", a student community, which has grown to a site with 10 million PV per month. In 2004, he became the CEO of Media Clip, which operates a rental bulletin board service "ShitarabaBBS". After that year, he had transfer "Shitaraba BBS" to Livedoor, and took charge of starting up the Consumer Generated Media sector. In 2006, he joined Recruit, and took charge of starting up a new business at Business development sector. In June of 2009, he left Recruit, and became the CEO of nanapi (formerly Rocket Start), which operates the How-to Site "nanapi".
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- Industry: Content, Media and Entertainment, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $961k–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plott — Plott producing youtube animation platform under Vision “Become a Content holder from YouTube”. In August 2019, the company name was changed from Fabo to Plott. Plott, the new company name, is derived from the plot that you make before writing novels, etc., and the idea that “I want to make content all the time” is put in the company name.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- FiNANCiE — FiNANCiE is a social networking service.
Noguchi Keito - Founder @ Vapes
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Marketing, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $9.3M–$11M; Angel $7.1M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.
- Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
Yasuyuki Kin
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Career Planning
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Onepair — Onepair is a job consulting and recruiting company. Onepair is to co-creating careers by talking about real-world ace with active ace.
- Strainer Co., Ltd. — Strainer Co., Ltd. is an information distribution platform that conveys corporate information centered on financial data. Although there are not a few media to deliver financial information, the company's strengths are strong to be easily viewed, including financial information of overseas companies.
- LAMILA — LAMILA develops system that improves the creation of retail stores.
Born in 1978 and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, Kazuma founded paperboy&co. inc. (currently GMO Pepabo) and went on to become the youngest CEO ever (at the time) to take a company public in Japan by taking paperboy&co. public on the JASDAQ Japanese stock exchange. After leaving paperboy&co, he continued his startup trail by foundingBASE, CAMPFIRE, and XIMERA. Kazuma also dabbled in the food services industry via the founding of On The Corner (a cafe) and is active in the startup investment scene. He also started the Liverty-house project which attempts to create shared housing for young people in need.
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- Industry: Content, Fashion, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $380k–$41M; Angel $989k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taliki — Taliki is a Coworking Space Operates Social Entrepreneurs Development Support for Intrepreneur Development.
- ONE NOVA — One Nova (ワンノバ) is a lifestyle brand and online platform that offers a range of innerwear products, such as men's boxers.
- vivid garden — vivid garden is an Agriculture company.
2011 At university, participated in the founding period as a director of Atcole Co., Ltd., and started the web service experience.2012 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd., which operates a curation platform for women "MERY" .2014 Founded Peroli Co., Ltd. Sold to DeNA 2015 Jointly established Tokyo Founders Fund as an angel investor and startedinvesting in startups in Japan and overseas 2019 Appointed outside director of FIREBUG Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$23M; Angel $412k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
- SPORTS CROWN — SPORTS CROWN engages in the development and operation of fantasy sports.
- Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
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- Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
- TranSe — TranSe is a company that creates the future with videos through YusukeOkawa, TranSe Salon, OneSe Personal, & your school.
Founder and CEO at CrowdWorks.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $6.9M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Attelu — Attelu is a people analytics service that identifies, hires and retains active talent.
- Recipio — Recipio is an receipt management platform specialized in providing digital receipt solution. Their innovative digital receipt solution and breakthrough receipt-scanning technology.
- Recipio Japan — Recipio is a service that can suggest recipes just by entering ingredients the user already has at home. The app can also refine suggestions based on the user's mood, the occasion, and how many people the user is eating with, and more.
Toru Shimada is a Senior Executive Officer and Director of Rakuten. Mr. Shimada is a Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and Head of Asia Regional Headquarters Office of the Company.Mr. Shimada joined Rakuten in 2004. Prior to joining Rakuten, Mr. Shimada was founder and Director of INTELLIGENCE, LTD from 1989 to 2004. Prior to INTELLIGENCE, LTD.Mr. Shimada worked at RECRUIT CO., LTD. from 1987 to 1989.
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- Industry: Task Management, Manufacturing, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$66M; Angel $549k–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neith — Neith is a apparel manufacturer, seller and a whoelseller of water absorbing bralette, lingerie and shorts for women.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
Jo Hirao is President, CEO & Representative Director at ZIGExN Co., Ltd. Mr. Hirao is also on the board of Apple World, Inc. and Rejob Co., Ltd.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, B2B, E-Commerce Platforms
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Series D
- Geography: India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series B $12M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Truebil — Buy 100% Certified and Inspected Used cars at fair prices. Get easy paper transfer and service warranty. Call 7428700373
- Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
- Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
Fumiaki Koizumi - Executive Director @ Mercari
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $6.9M–$16M; Series A $62M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Osiro — Osiro is a community management firm.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
- FABRIC TOKYO — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
Shoji Kodama - President @ Laxus Technologies
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- Industry: Real Estate, Internet, Construction
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $14M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mepple — Mepple is planning, developing, and operating internet services.
- Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
- FABRIC TOKYO — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
Masao Ito is a Founder & CEO at User Local.
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- Industry: Content, Social Media, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $640k–$16M; Series A $12M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- mikai — mikai is a virtual YouTuber management, VR / AR content development.
- Tokyo — Tokyo provides consistently-designed signage and projector installation, as well as maintenance company support. All customers need is “product selection” considering installation. This is a service that does not take time and effort!
- Graffity — Graffity to provide AR experiences globally and enrich life more conveniently and invent the AR entertainment experience and provide it globally.
After JTB Co., Ltd. and CYBIRD Co., Ltd. as an initial member of Glee Co., Ltd. is responsible for business development. Currently, he is mainly engaged in venture support in the Internet area, investing in venture and venture capital, and served as management advisor for dozens of companies. Hands-on business development, growth strategydevelopment, financing advice, HR organization design support, partner referral and Recruit Support. He is also engaged in business support for ventures in the healthcare and university venture fields. He served as Digital Health Meetup Advisor, NEDOTCP Mentor and Future 2016 Mentor.
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- Industry: Content, Marketing, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $3.7M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AceRNA — AceRNA contributes to regenerative medicine and drug discovery through the discovery of novel miRNA functions. It began operation in April 2018, with its headquarters in Kyoto in Japan.
- Epicbase — Epicbase is an AI-based automatic voice transcription service based on voice recognition technology.
- Go Visions — Go Visions engages in the edutainment tech for children and human resources services.
Arai is the CEO of Happy Elements KK (Japan Company). Arai-Sam manages the mobile business for the Japan market and the business development, product marketing, fans care in Japan.As a student, Motoki Arai worked as a programmer for tech startups such as Gaiax and KLab. He later was involved in the founding of Drecom, and became an executiveofficer just 4 months after joining the company.After being listed in the Mothers Index of the TSE, he started his own company, Cyworks, in Kyot
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- Industry: Wedding, Recruiting, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- REXIT — REXIT, Inc. is REal x IT. With a corporate philosophy of "new value in the Internet and real life", and toward the vision of "making the old business around the world a new business", the mission is to "restructure the bridal industry and create a world full of weddings." Is a company that is challenging. By adding theessence of the Internet and technology to wedding halls and weddings, we create new value that can contribute to society.
Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.
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- Industry: Internet, Content, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $343k–$41M; Series A $13M–$73M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
- ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
- Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
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Browse database — It's Free!Yusuke Asakura is an entrepreneur, a businessman, a venture investor, a scholar and the co-founder of Signifiant Inc. At Signifiant, Yusuke manages a ¥20 billion growth fund “THE FUND” aimed at growth-stage startups.
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- Industry: Finance, Internet, Consulting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $5.5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Siiibo — Siiibo is a developer of an information platform intended to help private investors and companies to issue and purchase private bonds easily. The company's platform is creating a free, transparent, and fair direct finance that provides opportunities for an advisory to companies, such as support for diversification of funding using smallprivate placement bonds, and for building relationships with investors, enabling the private investors to get familiar with the issuance of corporate bonds.
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
- OVERFLOW — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
Soichiro Kawai - CEO @ ReBoost
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $961k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Villio — Villio provides talent experience SaaS which helps companies with human resource development and recruitment of talented engineers.
- HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
- SPeak Corporation — SPeak Corporation operates JPort Match that is involved in direct recruiting service. It is a global career platform for budding new talents.
Daisuke Takanashi is an angel investor.
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- Industry: SNS, Content, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $7.6M–$9.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VCook —
- Abentry — Abentry is engaged in the SNS business and media advertising business.
- alma — alma is a community platform to learn design.
Yasuyoshi Yanagisawa - President & CEO @ FAN Communications
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- Industry: Media and Entertainment, Content, Men's
- Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Penmark —
- NoSchool — NoSchool is possible to ask a study teacher to a professional teacher who is working as a tutor or a private lecturer for free.
- Posiwill — Posiwill is a operating a career consultation service with job seekers billing type.
Narita Shuzo is a Executive Vice President/COO, CrowdWorks Inc.
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- Industry: Task Management, Media and Entertainment, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.
Hajime is a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor with a strong academic background in artificial intelligence (AI) and AI web applications. Received Ph.D with a study of neural networks.Hajime started coding when he was 12 years old and implemented his first AI code at 14 years old, which automatically correct simple grammaticalmistakes. He was the inventor and product lead of AI-backed Ad Tech at Cirius Tech, which was acquired by Yahoo Japan, and also a CTO at NakedTech, which was sold to Mixi Japan.
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- Industry: Q&A, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan, Thailand, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $14k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nishika — Nishika provides a data science competition, Q&A and recruitment platform.
- Beeketing — ShopBase is the best eCommerce platform specialized for modern businesses with easy setup, no risk, free for 14 days. Dropshipping, Print-on-Demand, Online Brand, Content Creator.
- Deepscope — ALWAYS INVEST IN THE BEST COMPANIES - Your AI powered stock research and portfolio management platform
Michimasa Naka is a member of the Board Of Directors of istyle.inc. He is an experienced Chairperson with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry.
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- Industry: Reservations, Travel, Employment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $41M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Fun — Fun is a sightseeing entertainment company that makes the world even more of a fun place.
- Tabinaka — Tabinaka is a Japanese booking & reservation platform for overseas tours and travel activities.
Nobuhiro Ariyasu is the CEO at Coach United.
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- Industry: Content, Internet, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
- Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
- Seibii, Inc. — Transforming traditional car maintenance, repair, after-parts installation, road service industry of Japan by leveraging Technology.
Shinji Kimura - Chairman/Founder @ AnyPay
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1M–$106M; Series B $5M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- POKKT — POKKT is an Alternate Mobile Payment Platform that helps owners of Paid Digital Goods and Services to monetise thier users through an advertiser-funded Model. Develpoers and Publishers of Digital content can significantly increase monetization and convert non-paying users into paying users.
- Alpaca — Alpaca API allows developers and businesses to build apps, embed investing, and trade algorithms
- AlpacaJapan — Alpaca is a technology company developing financial system platforms powered by the collaboration of AI and people.
Ichiro Fukushima
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- Industry: Employment, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
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Browse database — It's Free!Taira Sakuma is the founder of FORCAS.
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- Industry: Human Resources, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flyle — Flyle provides a cloud based platform for product management helping customers to improve productivity & creativity in product development.
- Boulder — Eliminates dissatisfaction, anxiety, misfortune, etc. “Misfortune”, and aims to realize in the world where all people can work while imagining the future positively, Japan's first employ SuccessThe platform “Well” is provided. The service is a service that analyzes data of communication tools such as Slack normally used by AI, and allows youto objectively see employee condition and organizational issues.
- OVERFLOW — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
Nishio Kentaro is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer & President at Game8.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $5.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
- YOUTRUST — YOUTRUST is a startup to operate YOUTRUST a referral recruitment platform for side-job change.
- Cloud Franchise — Cloud Franchise is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
Koji Hayami - Project Manager @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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- Industry: Recruiting, Real Estate, Task Management
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
- Unito — Unito offers people a friction-free lifestyle by pursuing optimization of living.
Hu Hua
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- Industry: Content, Aerospace, Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MICOLY — MICOLY is a operator of a website aimed at publishing and selling creative video lessons. The company hosts lectures that are presented by the creators of all categories who are keen on sharing their techniques and philosophies in areas of nail art, Japanese calligraphy, flower arrangement, knitting and many more, as well as interacting with theirpassionate fans, enabling users to take creative lessons and start a new hobby.
- SPACE WALKER — SPACE WALKER specializes in design, manufacture and sale of peripheral components.
- OVERFLOW — OVERFLOW provides consulting and recruitment services.
Masaru Tange graduated from Kyoto University and joined Incs Inc. in 2000 where he started their IT business and strategy consulting group with only 2 members and developed it into the company's main business with a team of 140 consultants with annual revenue of $50M in 5 years. He then founded SHIFT Inc in 2005 in his studio apartment. He wasthe only employee. The business world wasn't very kind to him - he made no revenue for a while but he kept experimenting with the business model listening to the needs of customers. In 2009, he finally found traction in the "software testing industry." In 2014, Masaru successfully IPO'ed the company. Shift now has 500 employees.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Timee — Timee is a Planning, development and management of Internet media company.
- Smart Shopping — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
- Launchable — Engineering teams ship 5x faster by using machine learning from Launchable
Toshiro “Tosh” Wakimaru is the Chief Operating Officer of MedPeer, Inc. , Tokyo, Japan since May 2010. Medpeer is the “Medical Doctor Exclusive” SNS in Japan that has just successfully gone to the market in 2014.Prior to the current job, Tosh had been actively working for Price Waterhouse Consulting, Japan LLP (now IBM Japan, Ltd.) aftergraduating from the Boston University School of Management in 1996. While there he completed numerous projects in corporate strategy, operation improvement, and new business development focusing on the retail, service, and healthcare industries with a secondment to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
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- Industry: Task Management, Food and Beverage, SNS
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Clear — Clear, Inc. operates sake subscription service “SAKELIFE".
- Cub McPaws — Buy comfortably fashionable kids clothes (4 - 12 years) online in India from Cub Mcpaws at best prices. Gorgeous dresses, jumpsuits, t-shirts, shirts & bottom wear for boys and girls | Free Shipping | COD
- Smartround — Smartround is a specialized finance management platform for startups and their investors. For start-ups, for entrepreneurs who are not familiar with finance, simply enter the necessary information according to the guide, prepare appropriate financing round, and prepare a function that can simulate and execute a capital increase. Support informationsharing and communication with shareholders even after the capital increase.
Shunsuke Sasaki - Executive officer @ Jiraffe
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- Industry: Social Media, Content, SNS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.
- bond Japan — Bond Co., Ltd. is a video learning platform specializing in Japanese language studies.
- Linklusion — Linklusion is a system development and management support for microfinance institutions in developing countries
Chikako Morimoto - External Counsel @ Traimmu
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- Industry: Human Resources, Employment, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $9.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.
- Vitalogue Health — Vitalogue Health offers Canvas, a home-based hormone testing service for women.
Umagami Emi
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- stmn — stmn is an Operation of Engagement Management Consulting.
Engineer since 10 years old. Electronics, Mechanical, Web, iOS Android
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- Industry: Sports, Internet, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
- Now Do — Now Do provides online growth revolution platform.
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Browse database — It's Free!After independence, in addition to financial support for start-ups, we have provided total support for start-up management operations in the seed period, which has no management staff, such as formulating capital policies and business plans. He also has more than tens of debt financing a year. Familiar with the finances of listed companies fromstartups. In order to produce startups that flourish from Japan to the world, we will always incorporate them into growth support from the perspective of startups.
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- Industry: Freelance, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
- Sollective — Sollective is an invite-only freelancer network where companies can directly hire talent inside and outside of Japan. Sollective connects freelancers and companies that are ready to work together to maximize each's potential and lead the business to success.
Yasuo Takahata - President @ DesignOne Japan, Inc.
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- Industry: Task Management, SNS, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waaq — Waaq is an actively recruiting members who want to change the work environment in Japan.
- M&A Cloud — M & A is a Match Platform for Small & Medium Venture Companies
- Asia Educasion Labo —
Yusuke Sato is the Co-Representative and Co-Founder at Pulit.
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- Industry: Internet, Content, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Indonesia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$41M; Angel $3.8M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AirX — AirX is a management service company specializing in air transportation agency business and travel arrangement business. The company leverages technology to transform the notion of mobility into an unprecedented experience. It also provides services such as CodeShare, AIROS Skyview, and AIROS Air Loss. AirX will create the movement of the futuresociety, sightseeing and the way of life of helicopter, Empty MaaS, Flying taxi, eVTOL, and Next-generation traffic.AirX was established on February 23, 2015, and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
- yup — yup is providing services to support freelance people's funding.The freelance population in Japan has been shown to continue to increase in many Chosa. While working styles are diversified, they are not able to respond to the development of the working environment, and they will develop their business to change the situation where problemssuch as funding, credit, sexual harassment, and power harassment are accumulated.
- Meetscare — Meetscare provides correct information and supports the self-awareness of all people involved in care. The company provides a wealth of information to ensure optimal care and create a mechanism for the realization. Users can make a telephone consultation and web diagnosis and search for free information using the system.Meetscare was founded on2016 and is headquartered in Arakawa, Tokyo.
Oshima Ayanobu - Chairman and CEO @ Infratop
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- Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Parame — Parame provides human resources, staffing and recruiting services.
- TranSe — TranSe is a company that creates the future with videos through YusukeOkawa, TranSe Salon, OneSe Personal, & your school.
Tony Sakai is founder & CEO at Open Doors Media.
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- Industry: Apps, Medical, Employment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DOFA — Dofa aims to develop services that enrich the way of life and work of human resources that are active mainly in sales.
- Pro Reach — Pro Reach is a tech company that has an application platform to help advance medical healthcare.
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